6/18--Baltimore, MD. Francisco Rodriguez did not have his best stuff tonight and the Baltimore Orioles were able to rally for 2 runs in the 9th to defeat the New York Mets 5-4. Matt Weiters led off the inning with a double and was lifted for pinch runner Felix Pie. Nolan Reimold came up next as a pinch hitter for SS Robert Andino and drew a walk. The next batter was Brian Roberts. He bunted and catcher Omir Santos elected to throw to third but it was not in time, loading the bases for Adam Jones who walked in the tying run.The next batter was Nick Markakis. Carlos Beltran then came in to be a "5th infielder" in case of a ground ball that was unreachable for second baseman Luis Castillo. Rodriguez was able to strike Markakis out to birng up the hero, Aubrey Huff. Beltran was sent back to play his normal center field position but it would make no difference where he stood as Huff singled giving the O's a 5-4 win. Said Rodriguez “It was awful. I didn’t get the job done,” he said. “I’m a human being. Unfortunately, days like this are going to happen. It happened to me and I’ve just got to move on.” (Source: David Ginsburg, AP sports writer - http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=290618101)
All of this came after a 7th inning in which both Daniel Murphy and Carlos Beltran each singled home runs giving the Mets a 4-2 lead.
Mets starter, Livan Hernandez was very good allowing only 2 runs on 8 hits over 7 innings. He struck out 4 and walked 1. Despite his team letting him down, Hernandez remains unbeaten since April 23rd.
Orioles starter Jason Berken pitched well in his 6.2 innings of work. He allowed 4 runs on 7 hits while striking out 8 and walking only 1. He stared to weaken in the 6th and 7th when he allowed the tying runs to score and the lead runs to get on base before bieng replace by Danys Baez with 2 outs in the 7th.
6/18--Bronx, NY. After a 5 1/2 hour rain delay, the Washington Nationals shut out the New York Yankees 3-0 behind Craig Stammen who got his first major league victory. This was also the first game at new Yankee Stadium in which no home runs were hit.
The Nationals were led by Ryan Zimmerman's 3 hits and slick fielding to give them they're first 2 game win streak since they had a 3 game streak from May 7-9. They also became the last team in the majors to record a shutout as Stammen, Ron Villone, Julian Tavarez, Joe Beimel and Mike MacDougal (second save) combined on the effort.
Starter Stammen went 6.1 innings allowing 6 hits, striking out 2 while not walking a batter.
Adam Dunn, Wil Nieves and Ryan Zimerman drove in the Nationals runs. They were numbers 47, 10 and 43 respectively. Robinson Cano and Nick Swisher led the Yankees with 2 hits each. 7 Yankees were left on base in the game.
Whats on tap:
Mets vs Rays
Yankees vs Marlins
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